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16 My life is ebbing away; I cannot live forever.
    Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

A Continual Testing[a]

17 “What is man, that you make so much of him
    or pay him any mind?
18 You examine him every morning
    and test him every moment of the day.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:17 Unlike the psalmist (Pss 8:5; 139:13-14, 23-24), Job cannot rejoice at the special attention God pays to human beings. This divine scrutiny shakes his conviction of innocence.